What your kids are doing online

More than half of parents take a peek at what their children are doing online, such as checking their Facebook status updates, reading their wall and looking at photographs in which they’ve been tagged, according to a survey this week.

Commissioned by security software company BullGuard, the survey was based on parents in the United Kingdom so we’re not sure how comparable it is to U.S. parents.

Still, it found that 55 percent of parents keep an eye on their child by checking their social networking profile. Forty percent of parents said they regularly check their child’s status updates, 39 percent read their child’s Facebook wall to see who’s been posting messages to their child and 29 percent look through tagged images.

Some parents — 16 percent — have tried to become friends with their child online but 30 percent have had their friend request rejected (ouch). Some — 13 percent — go as far as logging in through a friend’s account to check up on their kids.